Biography & Autobiography - Educators

Best known as an educator and early civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1936, she organized and represented thousands of women with the National Council of Negro Women. She led the charge...

A tireless and discerning advocate for contemporary practitioners of creative nonfiction, Ned Stuckey-French was at the center of every national discussion about the genre. He greatly contributed to our scholarly understanding of the history of the essay and was working on his first essay...

From Cabbage to Cauliflower offers a testament to the power and capacity of education to open the doors of opportunity and accomplishment to even the poorest and least likely of the nation's citizens. Born to a working-class Irish American family in Bowling Green, Kentucky,...

The year is 1969, and fresh-out-of-college smart-aleck Howard Shane has just landed his first teaching job--at Belchertown State School, a bleak institution where people with disabilities endure endless days of silence, tedium, and neglect.Howard is stunned by the conditions at Belchertown and the challenges...

Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology​ Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans​ Out of the Red is one man's pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices combined to deliver an unfortunate fate. After...

An Unexpected Story of Hope and Perseverance... As a young child, it was obvious something was wrong with Michael. He lacked basic motor skills and was unable to follow simple instructions or answer questions. Testing revealed a diagnosis of autism with a low IQ....

Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics, catapulted him into the public spotlight, as did his chilling visions of the future and...

"A story rich in reasons for hope." --Publishers WeeklyFrom the bestselling author of One Child, the true story of a boy who refused to speak--until a therapist's love broke through the silence. When Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricaded under a...

Heroes of Hawaiʻi, written in English by Kimo Armitage and illustrated brilliantly in gouache-style by artist Solomon Nui Enos, uses many Hawaiian language sources to provide a balanced perspective of historic events. Many of the heroes such as Mōʻīkeha, Māʻilikūkahi, Kūkaniloko and others helped...

Mary McCarthy is a storyteller, artist, teacher, healer, creative and intuitive who gently plaits her accounts in this exquisite memoir of living and working in remote Arnhem Land. From a young girl, Mary has had a deep connection to the land and to our...

"Barfield towers above us all...the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers." --C.S. Lewis"We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison we have made for...

Founding Father George Wythe was clearly the most influential teacher in American history, judged by student achievement in high public office. In this groundbreaking book, Suzanne Munson shines a light on Wythe's widespread influence on the country's first platoon of statesmen, those who set...

An intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of the world transformed by the experience. Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal meditation on the nature of...

The primary voice of the African American community from 1890 to 1915, and the author of Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington was an educator and orator as well as a founder of the Alabama school that developed into Tuskegee University. Washington proposed that...

Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) was sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other young Philadelphia women: she was black, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded any person of color...

For over half a century, Robert Schmuhl interviewed and wrote about Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who served as the president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 until 1987. Beginning as an undergraduate student during the 1960s, when he covered Hesburgh and...

"The Schooling of a 21st Century Principal" traces the author's journey to the principalship, a career goal nowhere to be found on his bucket list. He took the reins knowing his middle school faced some daunting tasks; however, he would soon discover that it...

In this Inaugural Edition, Minh Hien and Farshid recall their compelling educational journeys over 40 years in Australia. They interweave stories of their experiences in sponsoring and educating students in rural areas of Vietnam, and in providing scholarships to support refugee students in Tasmania...

It was a time of destruction of lives and futures and of rebirth and rebuilding. In his lively style with a wide sweep of insights Peter Lindenfeld recounts his personal and often intimate experiences, a microcosm of life during a time spanning nearly a...

The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In The Best Weapon...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, when he was named the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Bergoglio, the first pope from the Americas, took his papal title after St. Francis of Assisi of Italy. Prior to his election...

The Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey, stands as a memorial to one of Rutgers University's most influential leaders. Gross started teaching at Rutgers as an assistant professor of philosophy in 1946, but quickly rose through the ranks to...

Robert C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of many books, including African American Leadership (coauthored with Ronald W. Walters); John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance; and...

Previously published as Kid Quixotes, the unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher unlock the revolutionary power of listening."Haff paints a picture of what education in America could and perhaps should be. His story is...

Sovereignty, legalese, government, taxation, fraud, courts, law, legal, interpretation, freedomAuthor: Mika RasilaISBN-10: 1656594307ISBN-13: 9781656594303Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2020Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d

#1 New Release in Children's Studies, Educators, and Public Policy ─ Leveling the Playing Field for All Our Young ChildrenReaders of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson will love Dave Lawrence's A Dedicated LifeWhat are you going to do for the rest of your life?...

"How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times--the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor" Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe; but,...

Copper Country Journal brings to life a culture and community long since passed from the American landscape. It includes a wealth of information, both within the introduction and throughout the diary, about the copper industry from 1845-1865. Hobart centered his narrative on Cliff Mine,...

Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man, shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of Americans. --Washington Times Noah Webster The Life and Times of an American Patriot ""More than...

This sweeping book offers the definitive account of the life and labors of Edward Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame. Born in the west of France in 1814, Sorin was ordained in 1838 and joined the newly founded Congregation of Holy Cross...

On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on his way to work. At the time,...

The beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. "From the time I'd been a girl, I'd been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the...

Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and...

"If I could learn to play the cello well, as I thought I could, I could show by my own example that we all have greater powers than we think; that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn;...

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer...

Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most widely read and studied educational thinkers of our time. His seminal works, including Pedagogy of the Oppressed, sparked the global social and philosophical movement of critical pedagogy and his ideas about the close ties between education...

William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature emeritus at Rutgers University. His previous publications include The Epistolary Moment: A Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle, Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, Jameson/Althusser/Marx,...

Skullcaps 'N Switchblades has been an exciting ride. The book has been reprinted six times and sold over 50,000 copies, which ain't too shabby considering it was first available only in Judaic outlets. But much more important than the numbers, are the letters and...

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civilrights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Through his activism and inspirational...

As the "Seeing Eye Girl" for her blind, artistic, and mentally ill mother, Beverly Armento was intimately connected with and responsible for her, even though her mother physically and emotionally abused her. She was Strong Beverly at school--excellent in academics and mentored by caring...

When Barbara Kennard realized that her perfectionism was holding her back from being the teacher she'd always wanted to be, she thought about abandoning the professional together; instead, she took a risk and gave up everything she knew about teaching in the United States...

Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.Author: Valerie LeeISBN-10: 1438485859ISBN-13: 9781438485850Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2021Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize:...

Be inspired by the story of a life well lived.In this book you'll encounter--through words and images--the uplifting story of George Sweeting and his beloved wife, Hilda. You'll discern the providential hand of God as He brings the Sweetings' lives full circle. Both of...

Constellations of a Rabbinic Pantheon: 1 Gaon, 5 Rishonim, and 5 Ahronim.Author: David B. LevyISBN-10: 1312823879ISBN-13: 9781312823877Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/08/2021Pages: 700Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69d

"[Cecil Harwood] is the sole Horatio known to me in this age of Hamlets." --C.S. Lewis (from Surprised by Joy)Cecil Harwood (1898-1975) was a lecturer, Waldorf teacher, writer, editor, and anthroposophist who pioneered and developed the first Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf) school in the United...

Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with...

New Revelations about One of the Greatest Romances in HistoryPeter Abelard was arguably the greatest poet, philosopher, and religious teacher in all of twelfth-century Europe. In an age when women were rarely educated, Heloise was his most gifted young student. Their private tutoring sessions...

Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small...

Printed under his name in the class "will" published with his Salisbury, Maryland, high school yearbook was, "Jack Shilkret leaves running." From an early age, Jack fantasized about what life was like outside Salisbury. He had no idea where he would go after high...

A unique and beautifully crafted glimpse into life lived to the brim, When All This Is Over follows the true story of a young girl as she navigates faith, family, tragedy, and happiness from her early days in a rural English village, to nostalgic...